I've been back and forth through the mbean xml file and can't see anything wrong (despite the funky type in the dump).

I'm on 8.1 SP2.

Any ideas as to what would cause this?

Thanks,
Jim

Re: Error deploying custom identity asserter

The problem was with the name I was using for the implementation class of the identity asserter. Was calling it XXXIdentityAsserterImpl. This conflicted with the name of a class that was being generated by the MBean tool apparently. Changed it to XXXIdentityAsserterProviderImpl and the issue was resolved.